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Github ssh keys on Windows

2021/02/04 ludek.vodicka Leave a comment

1) Install git client

choco install git -Y

2) generate ssh key for your email

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "[email protected]"

3) enable `OpenSSH Authentication Agent` in Services management

4) add key to agent

ssh-add  C:\Users\USER\.ssh\id_ed25519

5) add key to github

type "C:\Users\USER\.ssh\id_ed25519.pub"

6) test key

ssh -T [email protected]
Hi USER! You've successfully authenticated, but GitHub does not provide shell access.

Cmder, Cygwin and other

2016/10/15 ludek.vodicka Leave a comment

Console emulator for windows – CMDER
Cygwin installation package – CYGWIN
Integrate Cygwin to CMDER
How to add additional packages to cygwin (apt-cyg….)
apt-cyg installation (lynx required from Cygwin package)

How to create .pdb files also for Release version of Qt library

2014/08/12 ludek.vodicka Leave a comment

For debugging purposes it’s a good idea to keep .pdb files also for release version of your libraries. Unfortunately in default configuration Qt library doesn’t generate .pdb files. It’s a not big deal, create .pdb files for release version it’s pretty simple.

1) Add compilation flags to .pro file

The easiest way how to create pdb files is pass /Zi switch to compiler and /Debug to linker.

QMAKE_CXXFLAGS+=/Zi
QMAKE_LFLAGS+= /INCREMENTAL:NO /Debug

2) Solution via mkspec

As pointed out in this QtProject article, another way is to edit mkspec so any future compilations will have this option turned on. It’s necessary to modify correct mkspec file, for example

Qt</span>\mkspecs\win32-msvc2005\qmake.conf

and add following lines (it should be sufficient to add only /Zi and /Debug switch):

QMAKE_CFLAGS_RELEASE += /Zi
QMAKE_LFLAGS_RELEASE += /INCREMENTAL:NO /DEBUG

Code signing certificate for windows

2014/06/27 ludek.vodicka One comment

We encounter several problems when we tried to deploy our new version of ORM Designer – Skipper to our new web site skipper18.com. Although new Skipper installer is very simmilar to ORM Designer installer, when downloading this exe-file from the new site we are getting this error:

installer.exe is not commonly downloaded and could harm your computer

The problem is somewhere in chrome/IE when evaluating downloaded file. Probably combination of new site, new executable and new name of product is the problem.

To fix this issue, we decided to sign-in installer and application executable by Code-signing certificate. There are a lot of certificate providers and the costs are very different. A lot of providers are selling these certificate for around $500/year. Fortunately it’s possible to found certificates also for $75 – $95/year. The cheapest one is from tucows.com but based on the site and additional tools I decided for ksoftware.net, The price $95/year isn’t so different but they offer also command line and GUI signing tool for their certificates called kSign.

Order process

Fill your company details, pay with paypal and wait until someone from Comodo will contact you with additional details. It’s necessary to have the same contact information on the domain registration as on certificate registration. It is also necessary to have company registered in one of publicly available lists with the same company information as on certificate registration.

Next step is a validation through phone call. It is a quick call when you confirm registration info through the call in order to verify your phone number. Phone call is the last necessary step and then you receive email with certificate:

Usage

Signing of the application and installer is pretty easy. K-Software offers two applications for this purposes. The first one is with GUI, second one is command line based. Both applications need only few parameters like where the certificate is stored, certificate password, application description, link and executable location:

Command line application is executed through following command:

kSignCMD.exe /d "Skipper application" /du "http://www.skipper18.com" /f PATH\certificate.pfx /p PASSWORD PATH\Skipper.exe

And that’s all. Now if you checked your executable through properties in Windows explorer, you see that your application is correctly signed:

External links

Slow execution of application from Visual studio

2013/09/21 ludek.vodicka Leave a comment

Today my Visual Studio 2010 started to execute my application super slowly. When I tried to execute my application (without any changes in source-code) the delay between “Start Debugging” and application start was about one minute.

I know that too many breakpoints or breakpoints in templates could caused this, but I don’t see any breakpoint in my Breakpoints window.

But as I have found that the problem was really caused by breakpoints. In some special cases – when you’re using some external tools to modified your project file (.sln/.vcxproj) – breakpoints can disappear and begin to make a trouble (I’m using Qt qmake to update my project based on .pro files.)

The solution is pretty easy. Use Delete All Breakpoins from Debug menu:

And your problem will be solved ;-).

ERROR 2006 (HY000) at line 1: MySQL server has gone away

2013/09/02 ludek.vodicka Leave a comment

Problem:

Getting error 2006 during database backup import. The problem is in short timeout and small packet size. It’s necessary to update my.cnf and restart MySql service.

Solution:


[mysqld]
max_allowed_packet = 64M
wait_timeout = 6000

[mysqldump]
max_allowed_packet = 64M

External links

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13323833/error-2006-hy000-at-line-1-mysql-server-has-gone-away

GetTickCount64 problem on WindowsXP

2013/08/29 ludek.vodicka Leave a comment

Today we received report from one of our customers about problem with our ORM Designer on WindowsXP – 32bit. Our latest version returns following error:

The procedure entry point GetTickCount64 could not be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll

The problem is that GetTickCount64 doesn’t exists in XP system.

Solution:

It’s necessary to compile your application (and any library which uses GetTickCount64) with correct WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT defines value. List of WINVER values for all Windows version can be found here.

You can define these values in your resource.h file:

#define WINVER 0x0501 #define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0501

or add it to a project property -> C/C++ -> Preprocessor -> Preprocessor Definitions:

Qt Solution:

If you want to define these values automatically in Qt project, add following lines to your .pro file:

#Windows XP compatability DEFINES += "WINVER=0x0501" DEFINES += "_WIN32_WINNT=0x0501"

External links:

How to fix “The device, \Device\Ide\iaStor0, did not respond within the timeout period.”

2012/09/23 ludek.vodicka Leave a comment

Link with detailed description of this problem.

Short how to fix:

regedit
open HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\iaStor\Parameters\Port[0-n]\
set LPM=0, LPMDSTATE=0, and DIPM = 0

if your registry doesn’t contain this key, you have to add them.

Add new key "Port0".
Add new "DWORD" value named "LPM" and value leave 0.
Add next two "DWORD" values named "LPMDSTATE" and "DIPM".

Another advise how to fix this error

This method is originally referred in MS Technet forum:

Also the issue may be the result of Aggressive Link State Power Management (ALPM) on the PCI-Express bus negotiating a lower power state for the link between the controller and disk when there is no activity. When ALPM works, disk requests are queued, the serial link revived, and the queued requests are sent to the relevant disk; this requires a disk that supports ALPM.

1.       Click Start button, choose Control Panel.
2.       Move to Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Power Options. Click Change plan setting in your current power plan.
3.       Click “Change advanced power settings”, move to PCI Express-> Link State Power Management, turn off the option.

External links

Find and delete all directories on windows

2012/09/20 ludek.vodicka Leave a comment

Run follwing command

DIR /AD/B/S | SORT /R > EMPTIES.BAT

and add RD command before every line in empties.bat file

RD filepath ...
...

Ref: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,803393,00.asp

Qt and Google breakpad Windows/Linux/MacOS

2012/08/31 ludek.vodicka 9 comments

Integration of Google breakpad on any platform is really challenge. I didn’t figure out how to do it by using recommended ways. So I did it my way 😉

Create your own Qt project

As first thing I did when integrating Qt and Breakpad is creation of my own .pri file. I manually add all required files from Breakpad one-by-one, starting with src/platform/exception_handler continuing with all files included in previous ones. The complete .pri file you will find at end of this post.

After that I created simple CCrashHandler (inspired by qt-breakpad project) class which register exception handler. It’s necessary to implement this handler for each platform separately because each platform have different parameters in google_breakpad::ExceptionHandler() constructor. CrashHandler source code you can find also at end of this post.

Using Breakpad on Linux:

Article about Linux integration.

Notes Linux

GCC 4.6.3
Ubuntu 12.04.1 32/64bit

Get and Compile Breakpad

#get breakpad latest version
svn checkout http://google-breakpad.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ google-breakpad-read-only

#compile all breakpad tools for extracting symbol files
./configure
make
sudo make install

#when compilation is ready, you should have installed file dump_syms from original directory /src/tools/linux/dump_syms in your /usr/bin
dump_syms

Generate symbol file and test debug info

Now how to generate and use symbol file:

#generate .sym file
dump_syms ./Application > Application.sym

#store sym file in the correct location
#this step is necessary. Without that minidump_stackwalk tool doesn't work

head -n1 Application.sym
#Result: MODULE Linux x86_64 6EDC6ACDB282125843FD59DA9C81BD830 Application

mkdir -p ./symbols/Application/6EDC6ACDB282125843FD59DA9C81BD830
mv Application.sym ./symbols/Application/6EDC6ACDB282125843FD59DA9C81BD830

#show stack with using minidump_stackwalk tool
minidump_stackwalk ./crash.dmp ./symbols

Result of minidump_stackwalk tool can look like this:

Use additional tools

There is script written by Mozzila corp which simplifies extracting and storing .sym file:
http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/crashreporter/tools/symbolstore.py?raw=1

Now with this script, you can do only one step instead of all described above.

python /path/to/script/symbolstore.py /usr/local/bin/dump_syms ./symbol-storage ./Application

This command correctly creates folder Application/uuid in path symbol-storage and copy generated .sym file inside.

Using Breakpad on MacOS:

To integrate Breakpad and Qt on MacOS I used the same article as for Linux because I’m using gcc and linux-like development toolchain. For native XCode integration you have to probably use this article.

Notes MacOS

GCC 4.6.3
Qt creator toolchain
Mac OS 10.7.3 64bit
Don’t using any of XCode tool chaing

Do almost all steps like on Linux integration. There is one exception, because you can’t compile Breakpad tools using linux-like configure&make. You have to build these tools with XCode.

Compile google_breakpad/src/tools/mac/dump_syms/dump_syms.xcodeproj with XCode

Before I managed to successfully compile dump_syms in XCode, I have to update Architectures Debug/Release to 64-bit Intel and BaseSDK to “Latest Mac OS X”. I also fix all issues displayed in the left part of XCode window.

Next step is change compilation type from Debug to Release. After a short searching I found a way in “Schema->Edit schema->Build configuration”.

To be honest, I was not sure what I did, but it worked ;-). Maybe there is some easier way how to compile dump_syms in xcode, but I don’t know how. This was my first contact with XCode ;-).

The application is compiled to path “/Users/User/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/dump_syms-bjvr/Build/Products/Release/dump_syms”. Now copy dump_syms to safe location from where you will use it.

The rest steps are same like in the Linux.

Using Breakpad on Windows

Notes Windows

Article about Windows integration.

Compile with Visual Studio 2010
Post-mortem debugging is done also via VS2010
Google breakpad under windows generates common .dmp files which can by simply load directly to VS

Generate symbol files and test debug info

You have to choices for Windows. First option is use standard .PDB and .DMP files mechanism in VS. Second is use the same way how you can did it for Linux and Mac.

First way: Let compiler generate .PDB file. Store this files and use them later in VS together with your crash dump.

Second way: Use dump_sys.exe. This file is located in the google breakpad directory tree: google-breakpad\src\tools\windows\binaries\dump_syms.exe .

dump_syms.exe AtomixDevelopment.exe >AtomixDevelopment.sym

And also like under Linux, you can use Python script symbolstore.py to extract symbols to correct directory:

python.exe symbolstore.py binaries\dump_syms.exe .\Symbols AtomixDevelopment.exe

Minidump stackwalk for windows:
http://code.google.com/p/pcxfirefox/source/browse/trunk/betterpgo/talos/talos/breakpad/win32/minidump_stackwalk.exe?r=19

The best thing at end

The most amazing thing I found about dump_syms is their platform independence. If you correctly extract symbol file on each platform and store it in one location, you can analyze any crashdump on one location. No matter what is source platform, you will analyze .dmp file by using minidump_stackwalk ./crash.dmp ./symbols.

How to include CrashHandler directly to your project

This is what I get when I follow all includes from .h and .cpp files starting with exception_handler.h for all platforms. With small modification you can include it to your project and your application will be fully breakpad-able ;-).

# ---------- HEADER -----------------------------------------------------------
OTHERS   += $$PWD/axCrashHandler.pri
HEADERS += $$PWD/CrashHandler.h
SOURCES += $$PWD/CrashHandler.cpp

BREAKPAD_PATH=$$EXTERNAL_LIBRARIES_PATH/breakpad-qt
INCLUDEPATH += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src

OSMAC {
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/client/mac/handler/exception_handler.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/client/mac/crash_generation/crash_generation_client.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/client/mac/crash_generation/crash_generation_server.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/client/mac/crash_generation/client_info.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/client/mac/handler/minidump_generator.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/client/mac/handler/dynamic_images.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/client/mac/handler/breakpad_nlist_64.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/client/mac/handler/mach_vm_compat.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/client/minidump_file_writer.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/client/minidump_file_writer-inl.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/mac/macho_utilities.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/mac/byteswap.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/mac/MachIPC.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/mac/scoped_task_suspend-inl.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/mac/file_id.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/mac/macho_id.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/mac/macho_walker.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/mac/macho_utilities.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/mac/bootstrap_compat.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/mac/string_utilities.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/linux/linux_libc_support.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/string_conversion.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/md5.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/memory.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/using_std_string.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/convert_UTF.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/processor/scoped_ptr.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/google_breakpad/common/minidump_exception_mac.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/google_breakpad/common/breakpad_types.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/google_breakpad/common/minidump_format.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/google_breakpad/common/minidump_size.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/third_party/lss/linux_syscall_support.h

  SOURCES += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/client/mac/handler/exception_handler.cc
  SOURCES += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/client/mac/crash_generation/crash_generation_client.cc
  SOURCES += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/client/mac/crash_generation/crash_generation_server.cc
  SOURCES += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/client/mac/handler/minidump_generator.cc
  SOURCES += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/client/mac/handler/dynamic_images.cc
  SOURCES += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/client/mac/handler/breakpad_nlist_64.cc
  SOURCES += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/client/minidump_file_writer.cc
  SOURCES += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/mac/macho_id.cc
  SOURCES += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/mac/macho_walker.cc
  SOURCES += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/mac/macho_utilities.cc
  SOURCES += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/mac/string_utilities.cc
  SOURCES += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/mac/file_id.cc
  SOURCES += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/mac/MachIPC.mm
  SOURCES += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/mac/bootstrap_compat.cc
  SOURCES += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/md5.cc
  SOURCES += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/string_conversion.cc
  SOURCES += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/linux/linux_libc_support.cc
  SOURCES += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/convert_UTF.c
  LIBS += /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/CoreFoundation
  LIBS += /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/CoreServices
  #breakpad app need debug info inside binaries
  QMAKE_CXXFLAGS+=-g
}

OSLIN {
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/client/linux/handler/exception_handler.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/client/linux/crash_generation/crash_generation_client.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/client/linux/handler/minidump_descriptor.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/client/linux/minidump_writer/minidump_writer.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/client/linux/minidump_writer/line_reader.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/client/linux/minidump_writer/linux_dumper.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/client/linux/minidump_writer/linux_ptrace_dumper.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/client/linux/minidump_writer/directory_reader.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/client/linux/log/log.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/client/minidump_file_writer-inl.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/client/minidump_file_writer.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/linux/linux_libc_support.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/linux/eintr_wrapper.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/linux/ignore_ret.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/linux/file_id.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/linux/memory_mapped_file.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/linux/safe_readlink.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/linux/guid_creator.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/linux/elfutils.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/linux/elfutils-inl.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/using_std_string.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/memory.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/basictypes.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/memory_range.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/string_conversion.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/convert_UTF.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/google_breakpad/common/minidump_format.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/google_breakpad/common/minidump_size.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/google_breakpad/common/breakpad_types.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/processor/scoped_ptr.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/third_party/lss/linux_syscall_support.h
  SOURCES += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/client/linux/crash_generation/crash_generation_client.cc
  SOURCES += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/client/linux/handler/exception_handler.cc
  SOURCES += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/client/linux/handler/minidump_descriptor.cc
  SOURCES += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/client/linux/minidump_writer/minidump_writer.cc
  SOURCES += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/client/linux/minidump_writer/linux_dumper.cc
  SOURCES += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/client/linux/minidump_writer/linux_ptrace_dumper.cc
  SOURCES += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/client/linux/log/log.cc
  SOURCES += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/client/minidump_file_writer.cc
  SOURCES += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/linux/linux_libc_support.cc
  SOURCES += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/linux/file_id.cc
  SOURCES += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/linux/memory_mapped_file.cc
  SOURCES += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/linux/safe_readlink.cc
  SOURCES += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/linux/guid_creator.cc
  SOURCES += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/linux/elfutils.cc
  SOURCES += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/string_conversion.cc
  SOURCES += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/convert_UTF.c
  #breakpad app need debug info inside binaries
  QMAKE_CXXFLAGS+=-g
}

OSWIN {
  BREAKPAD_PATH=q:/Applications/breakpad-qt/third-party/latest-breakpad
  INCLUDEPATH += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/windows/string_utils-inl.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/windows/guid_string.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/client/windows/handler/exception_handler.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/client/windows/common/ipc_protocol.h
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/google_breakpad/common/minidump_format.h 
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/google_breakpad/common/breakpad_types.h 
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/client/windows/crash_generation/crash_generation_client.h 
  HEADERS += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/processor/scoped_ptr.h 

  SOURCES += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/client/windows/handler/exception_handler.cc
  SOURCES += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/windows/string_utils.cc
  SOURCES += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/common/windows/guid_string.cc
  SOURCES += $$BREAKPAD_PATH/src/client/windows/crash_generation/crash_generation_client.cc 
}

And this is the minimal implementation of your new CrashHandler. My ownd crash handler is much more sophisticate to perform reporting, sending crash dump etc. But for purposes of this article this is what you need (And also I don’t want to share my whole know-how here ;-)))

CrashHandler.h

#pragma once
#include <QtCore/QString>

namespace Atomix
{
	class CrashHandlerPrivate;
	class CrashHandler
	{
	public:
		static CrashHandler* instance();
    void Init(const QString&  reportPath);

		void setReportCrashesToSystem(bool report);
		bool writeMinidump();

	private:
		CrashHandler();
		~CrashHandler();
		Q_DISABLE_COPY(CrashHandler)
		CrashHandlerPrivate* d;
	};
}

CrashHandler.cpp

#include "CrashHandler.h"
#include <QtCore/QDir>
#include <QtCore/QProcess>
#include <QtCore/QCoreApplication>
#include <QString>

#if defined(Q_OS_MAC)
#include "client/mac/handler/exception_handler.h"
#elif defined(Q_OS_LINUX)
#include "client/linux/handler/exception_handler.h"
#elif defined(Q_OS_WIN32)
#include "client/windows/handler/exception_handler.h"
#endif

namespace Atomix
{
	/************************************************************************/
	/* CrashHandlerPrivate                                                  */
	/************************************************************************/
	class CrashHandlerPrivate
	{
	public:
		CrashHandlerPrivate()
		{
			pHandler = NULL;
		}

		~CrashHandlerPrivate()
		{
			delete pHandler;
		}

		void InitCrashHandler(const QString& dumpPath);
		static google_breakpad::ExceptionHandler* pHandler;
		static bool bReportCrashesToSystem;
	};

	google_breakpad::ExceptionHandler* CrashHandlerPrivate::pHandler = NULL;
	bool CrashHandlerPrivate::bReportCrashesToSystem = false;

	/************************************************************************/
	/* DumpCallback                                                         */
	/************************************************************************/
#if defined(Q_OS_WIN32)
	bool DumpCallback(const wchar_t* _dump_dir,const wchar_t* _minidump_id,void* context,EXCEPTION_POINTERS* exinfo,MDRawAssertionInfo* assertion,bool success)
#elif defined(Q_OS_LINUX)
	bool DumpCallback(const google_breakpad::MinidumpDescriptor &md,void *context, bool success)
#elif defined(Q_OS_MAC)
	bool DumpCallback(const char* _dump_dir,const char* _minidump_id,void *context, bool success)
#endif
	{
		Q_UNUSED(context);
#if defined(Q_OS_WIN32)
		Q_UNUSED(_dump_dir);
		Q_UNUSED(_minidump_id);
		Q_UNUSED(assertion);
		Q_UNUSED(exinfo);
#endif
		qDebug("BreakpadQt crash");

		/*
		NO STACK USE, NO HEAP USE THERE !!!
		Creating QString's, using qDebug, etc. - everything is crash-unfriendly.
		*/
		return CrashHandlerPrivate::bReportCrashesToSystem ? success : true;
	}

	void CrashHandlerPrivate::InitCrashHandler(const QString& dumpPath)
	{
		if ( pHandler != NULL )
			return;

#if defined(Q_OS_WIN32)
		std::wstring pathAsStr = (const wchar_t*)dumpPath.utf16();
		pHandler = new google_breakpad::ExceptionHandler(
			pathAsStr,
			/*FilterCallback*/ 0,
			DumpCallback,
			/*context*/
			0,
			true
			);
#elif defined(Q_OS_LINUX)
		std::string pathAsStr = dumpPath.toStdString();
		google_breakpad::MinidumpDescriptor md(pathAsStr);
		pHandler = new google_breakpad::ExceptionHandler(
			md,
			/*FilterCallback*/ 0,
			DumpCallback,
			/*context*/ 0,
			true,
			-1
			);
#elif defined(Q_OS_MAC)
		std::string pathAsStr = dumpPath.toStdString();
		pHandler = new google_breakpad::ExceptionHandler(
			pathAsStr,
			/*FilterCallback*/ 0,
			DumpCallback,
			/*context*/
			0,
			true,
			NULL
			);
#endif
	}

	/************************************************************************/
	/* CrashHandler                                                         */
	/************************************************************************/
	CrashHandler* CrashHandler::instance()
	{
		static CrashHandler globalHandler;
		return &globalHandler;
	}

	CrashHandler::CrashHandler()
	{
		d = new CrashHandlerPrivate();
	}

	CrashHandler::~CrashHandler()
	{
		delete d;
	}

	void CrashHandler::setReportCrashesToSystem(bool report)
	{
		d->bReportCrashesToSystem = report;
	}

	bool CrashHandler::writeMinidump()
	{
		bool res = d->pHandler->WriteMinidump();
		if (res) {
			qDebug("BreakpadQt: writeMinidump() successed.");
		} else {
			qWarning("BreakpadQt: writeMinidump() failed.");
		}
		return res;
	}

	void CrashHandler::Init( const QString& reportPath )
	{
		d->InitCrashHandler(reportPath);
	}
}

Main.cpp

And here is how to use it:

#include "axCore/axCrashHandler/CrashHandler.h"
#include <QDebug>
#include <QCoreApplication>
#include <iostream>

int buggyFunc()
{
	delete reinterpret_cast<QString*>(0xFEE1DEAD);
	return 0;
}

int main(int argc, char * argv[])
{
	qDebug() << "App start";
	QCoreApplication app(argc, argv);

#if defined(Q_OS_WIN32)
	Atomix::CrashHandler::instance()->Init("c:\\dump");
#elif defined(Q_OS_LINUX)
	Atomix::CrashHandler::instance()->Init("/Users/dev/dump");
#elif defined(Q_OS_MAC)
	Atomix::CrashHandler::instance()->Init("/Users/User/dump");
#endif
	
	qDebug() << "CrashHandlerSet";
	buggyFunc();
	return 0;
}

Qt application crash when compiled for 64-bit VS2010

2011/11/22 ludek.vodicka Leave a comment

Callstack

>	QtGui4.dll!00000000652f071f()
 	[Frames below may be incorrect and/or missing, no symbols loaded for QtGui4.dll]
 	QtGui4.dll!00000000652f07ae()
 	QtGui4.dll!0000000065326821()
 	QtGui4.dll!0000000065327f30()
 	QtGui4.dll!00000000653284ba()
 	QtGui4.dll!000000006532a5f5()
 	QtGui4.dll!00000000652f4792()
 	QtGui4.dll!000000006532f701()
 	QtGui4.dll!000000006535be71()
 	QtCore4.dll!0000000059a0ab9f()
 	QtGui4.dll!0000000065306eb9()
 	QtCore4.dll!00000000599f7903()
 	QtGui4.dll!0000000064eaffa2()
 	QtGui4.dll!0000000064eb2e56()
 	QtCore4.dll!00000000599f7792()
 	QtGui4.dll!0000000064eec2a3()
 	QtGui4.dll!0000000064eee85e()
 	QtGui4.dll!0000000064eec265()
 	QtGui4.dll!0000000064eee85e()
 	QtGui4.dll!0000000064eec265()
 	QtGui4.dll!0000000064eee85e()
 	QtGui4.dll!0000000064efa870()
 	QtGui4.dll!0000000065208727()
 	QtGui4.dll!000000006527a082()
 	QtGui4.dll!0000000064eaffb6()
 	QtGui4.dll!0000000064eb2e56()
 	QtCore4.dll!00000000599f7792()
 	QtGui4.dll!0000000064ef264c()
 	QtGui4.dll!0000000064ef26c7()
 	QtGui4.dll!0000000064ef26c7()
 	QtGui4.dll!0000000064ef26c7()
 	QtGui4.dll!0000000064efe30c()
 	OrmDesigner2.exe!000000013f95a2cf()
 	OrmDesigner2.exe!000000013f95dce2()
 	kernel32.dll!000000007794652d()
 	ntdll.dll!0000000077c8c521()

The bug is probably caused by wrong alignment or incorrect VS2010 compiler optimalization.

Found resources:
https://bugreports.qt.nokia.com//browse/QTBUG-11445
https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/573262/incorrect-alignment-with-x64-optimizer-and-movaps
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2280741
https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=31433

Workarounds:

First way – Update VS2010 mkspec for Qt

go to $QTDIR/mkspecs/win32-msvc2010/qmake.conf and replace -02 with -01 (ie. reducing the optimzation level).Also /Ob0 could be used.

Microsoft hotfix for VS

http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/KB2280741
File patch name VS10-KB2268081-x86.exe

Install Visual Studio 2010 SP1

Service pack could also contains required fix.
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=23691

MinGW and compilation 32/64bit libraries

2011/01/30 ludek.vodicka Leave a comment

Install MinGW-64

1) Download MinGW 64-bit and 32-bit

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Toolchains%20targetting%20Win64/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Toolchains%20targetting%20Win32/

– Toolchains targetting Win64 / Toolchains targetting Win32
– Automated Builds
– mingw-w64-1.0-bin_i686-mingw_*.zip
– mingw-w32-1.0-bin_i686-mingw_*.zip

2) Download MSYS compatible with 64-bit MinGW

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/External%20binary%20packages%20(Win64%20hosted)/MSYS%20(32-bit)/

3) Extract MinGW32, mingw64 and MSYS to one folder

MinGW-32, MinGW-64 and MSYS to folder MinGW64 (Bin folder from MinGW will be merged with bin folder from MSYS, etc.)

External links:

MSYS wiki
MinGW-64 wiki

Problem with Qt compilation under Windows 64-bit

2011/01/28 ludek.vodicka 7 comments

This short post will show you how to resolve following error during Qt compilation on 64-bit windows:

Creating library ..\..\..\..\lib\QtWebKitd4.lib and object ..\..\..\..\lib\Qt
WebKitd4.exp
PluginViewWin.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _HBeginPaint refer
enced in function "private: static struct HDC__ * __cdecl WebCore::PluginView::h
ookedBeginPaint(struct HWND__ *,struct tagPAINTSTRUCT *)" (?hookedBeginPaint@Plu
ginView@WebCore@@CAPEAUHDC__@@PEAUHWND__@@PEAUtagP AINTSTRUCT@@@Z)
PluginViewWin.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _HEndPaint referen
ced in function "private: static int __cdecl WebCore::PluginView::hookedEndPaint
(struct HWND__ *,struct tagPAINTSTRUCT const *)" (?hookedEndPaint@PluginView@Web
Core@@CAHPEAUHWND__@@PEBUtagPAINTSTRUCT@@@Z)
..\..\..\..\lib\QtWebKitd4.dll : fatal error LNK1120: 2 unresolved externals
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\
VC\BIN\x86_amd64\link.EXE"' : return code '0x460'
Stop.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\
VC\BIN\nmake.exe"' : return code '0x2'

This error is caused by bug in QMAKE_HOST variable used in WebCore.pro file. This variable is tested to determine destination platform (x86 or x64).
This variable contains x86 value also on 64-bit builds instead of x86_64 value. This value is tested on the following line in a WebCore.pro file:

win32:!win32-g++*:contains(QMAKE_HOST.arch, x86_64):{

If you want to fix this error, simply replace QMAKE_HOST by QMAKE_TARGET variable. Updated line should look like this:

win32:!win32-g++*:contains(QMAKE_TARGET.arch, x86_64):{

After this update all required asm defines are correctly included and build of WebKit will be successful.

Update for this error

In newer versions of Qt there is already applied fix the error with QMAKE_HOST / QMAKE_TARGET, but also there is a new problem ;-(.

The Problem is in the following “if” definition:

   if(win32-msvc2005|win32-msvc2008):equals(TEMPLATE_PREFIX, "vc") {
        SOURCES += \
            plugins/win/PaintHooks.asm
    }

When you compile your project for MSVC 2010, .asm file isn’t included. It’s necessary to add win32-msvc2010 to this definition. So updated WebCore.pro for Qt 4.8 will look like this:

 if(win32-msvc2005|win32-msvc2008|win32-msvc2010):equals(TEMPLATE_PREFIX, "vc") {
        SOURCES += \
            plugins/win/PaintHooks.asm
    }

Next problem solution

Next problem which I found during compilation is wrongly set QMAKE_TARGET.arg. For unspecified reason, when I compile 64bit library in 64bit system in 64bit VS command line, this variable has value x86 instead of x86_64.
The problem is in the qmake project.cpp file. QMAKE trying to determine 64/32 bit version based on the %PATH% configuration. Qmake search for VS-PATH\bin\amd64 of \bin\x86_amd64 string. Unfortunately there is a bug in concating searched string. This is how looks original project.cpp file at line 3177:

QString vcBin64 = qgetenv("VCINSTALLDIR").append("\\bin\\amd64");
QString vcBinX86_64 = qgetenv("VCINSTALLDIR").append("\\bin\\x86_amd64");

The problem is, that VCINSTALLDIR contains \ at the end of the string, and then we append \ again. So, result is:

QString vcBin64 = qgetenv("VCINSTALLDIR");
if ( vcBin64.at( vcBin64.size()-1 ) != '\\' )
  vcBin64.append("\\");
vcBin64.append("bin\\amd64");

QString vcBinX86_64 = qgetenv("VCINSTALLDIR");
if ( vcBinX86_64.at( vcBinX86_64.size()-1 ) != '\\' )
  vcBinX86_64.append("\\");
vcBinX86_64.append("bin\\x86_amd64");

Now, QMake correctly determine 32/64 bit compilation and then correctly include PaintHooks.asm and your Qt WebCore will be sucesfully compiled.

Mount error(12): Cannot allocate memory

2010/12/13 ludek.vodicka Leave a comment

Problem

When mounting some windows samba drives, “mount error(12)” error can occurred. Problem is in windows samba server settings. Full linux error message:

mount error(12): Cannot allocate memory
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

and error message in windows event log:

Source: srv
Event ID: 2017
Level: Error
The server was unable to allocate from the system nonpaged pool because the server reached the configured limit for nonpaged pool allocations.

Solution

Update following registry:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\LargeSystemCache = 1
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters\Size = 3

After you update these values, restart your computer.

More about this issue:

http://alan.lamielle.net

g++ template method problem

2010/12/03 ludek.vodicka Leave a comment

Quick post about problem which I already solved, but think that could be handy for someone else.

I have following code:

template<class T>
struct Test
{
	T val;
	template <class T2>
	void DoSomething( T2 &obj )
	{
		obj.FindByType<int>();
	}
};

When compiling under Visual studio, everything is ok. But when try the same code snippet under g++, have following error:

test.cpp: In member function ‘void Test<T>::DoSomething(T2&)’:
test.cpp:48: error: expected primary-expression before ‘int’
test.cpp:48: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘int’

This is because compiler doesn’t known FindByType method, because T2 is templated argument. The solution which I found is in adding keyword template before FindByType method name. So updated source code will look like this:

template<class T>
struct Test
{
	T val;
	template <class T2>
	void DoSomething( T2 &obj )
	{
		obj.template FindByType<int>();
	}
};

After this update, code will be compiled correctly under both compilers.

Other links

1) Add compilation flags to .pro file

2) Solution via mkspec

Order process

Usage

Problem:

Solution:

External links

Solution:

Qt Solution:

Another advise how to fix this error

External links

Create your own Qt project

Using Breakpad on Linux:

Notes Linux

Get and Compile Breakpad

Generate symbol file and test debug info

Use additional tools

Using Breakpad on MacOS:

Notes MacOS

Using Breakpad on Windows

Notes Windows

Generate symbol files and test debug info

The best thing at end

How to include CrashHandler directly to your project

CrashHandler.h

CrashHandler.cpp

Main.cpp

Workarounds:

First way – Update VS2010 mkspec for Qt

Microsoft hotfix for VS

Install Visual Studio 2010 SP1

Install MinGW-64

1) Download MinGW 64-bit and 32-bit

2) Download MSYS compatible with 64-bit MinGW

3) Extract MinGW32, mingw64 and MSYS to one folder

Update for this error

Next problem solution

Problem

Solution

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